Reproducible build recipes for GHC development VMs?

[Simon Marlow]

On 21/08/13 15:44, Ryan Newton wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Returning to the topic discussed by Simon M. and others here:
>
> http://projects.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-platform/2009-July/000572.html
>
> This is my attempt at a script for bootstrapping a GHC-validating VM:
>
> http://parfunk.blogspot.com/2013/08/zero-to-ghc-development-in-ubuntu-vm-in.html
>
> Let me know if there's a better way, or if you'd like to help get this
> kind of thing into an even more accessible form (Amazon AMI, Chef
> recipe, etc).

I do this occasionally with an Amazon VM.  Incidentally, why did you 
download the GHC 7.6.3 tarball rather than apt-get install ghc?  The 
current GHC on Ubuntu is 7.4 which is enough to bootstrap GHC HEAD.

Cheers,
	Simon